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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Classifier Symbols: Hide All But Name Compartm

« on: March 31, 2009, 09:02:04 am »

UML  (from UML 0.8 to my knowledge) has allowed class / classifier symbols with only the name compartment.   The UML tool that I am most familiar (Rational Rose) supported this notation from the very start.
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Edward

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Suggestions and Requests / Classifier Symbols: Hide All But Name Compartment

« on: March 26, 2009, 12:14:07 pm »

Hi,
UML classifier symbols (Class symbols etc) can consist of only the name compartment.  I find this very useful when I want to hide the detail during conceptual modelling and adding a class from an external package for example.

I would like to be able to hide  the extra compartment from class symbols that EA by default displays.

Refer to http://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.2/Superstructure/PDF/
Figure 7.28 (pdf page 67) for examples of the class notation with only the name compartment.
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Edward Stow

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General Board / Re: Disable line between class name and class body

« on: July 17, 2009, 10:54:51 am »

Sorry to jump into the thread a bit late but this issue
was also discussed by me earlier this year.

http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1237938988/0#0

Hiding the Attribute compartment would be a really useful feature.
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Edward Stow

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General Board / Re: Import SQL Schema

« on: May 24, 2009, 08:02:07 pm »

I can see it would not be that easy to import from a variety of SQL Dialects (compare MySQL with Oracle for example) but it would be a nice feature.
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Edward

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General Board / Re: Import SQL Schema

« on: May 22, 2009, 02:59:11 pm »

If you mean importing from a DDL script file - no that is not possible.

Yes thats what I meant ... pity .. I am working from some legacy application source code that needs re-engineering, but however it is not an installed system.

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General Board / Import SQL Schema

« on: May 22, 2009, 12:46:32 pm »

Hi,

I would like to import a schema defined using SQL DDL.

Is this possible?

Using EA Professional
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Edward

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General Board / Re: Hide Attribute Compartments in Domain Model

« on: March 26, 2009, 11:40:20 am »

Edit: I just realized that maybe you are wanting to remove the line under the class name, not just hiding them.  If that's the case you can't do it except by shrinking the height of the class.

Thanks so its not possible to hide unwanted compartments in the symbol except by adjusting the size of the symbol.  Can a default symbol be applied to a diagram?


In terminology familiar to me the boxes that make up the class symbol are called compartments and so I was expecting the options available at:
Diagram -> Properties -> Elements -> Show Compartments
 to be able to hide the compartments.
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Edward

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General Board / Re: Hide Attribute Compartments in Domain Model

« on: March 26, 2009, 10:23:27 am »

I have just confirmed that the attribute compartment cannot be hidden on a Vista machine using the trial version.

Simon: Can you verify that you can hide the compartments.
I am not talking about hiding the attributes - this works as expected.

Ctl Shift Y - Feature Visibility dialog does not have an option to hide the attribute / operation **compartment**.
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Edward

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General Board / Hide Attribute Compartments in Domain Model

« on: March 25, 2009, 10:56:28 am »

Hi

When constructing a domain model I prefer to hide attributes and operations.
Using Diagram -> Properties -> Elements -> Show Compartments and unchecked Attributes and Operations does not have any effect on classes in the diagram or new classes added to the diagram.

Is this the correct way to hide / show compartments.
(Using EA7.1 Trial on Wine)
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Edward

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Linux: Wine or Code Weaver

« on: June 05, 2009, 11:27:38 am »

AND my biggest problem is that EA is so slooooooow to the point of being unusable.  After an hour of usage with approx 8 classes in a diagram you need to wait forever (well a second or so) for any mouse action to be acted upon in the diagram.

The slow response has been fixed selecting the Basic Renderer options by
Tools | Options | Diagram | Appearance
Renderer drop down to Basic

EA with Crossover is not a usable product.  (Still cannot read the CHM files but at least the documentation is also on the web site.)

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Bugs and Issues / Code Weaver EA Memory Usage

« on: May 25, 2009, 12:13:38 pm »

Hi

The issue I am having may be the amount of memory allocated for EA.exe.

top reports that VIRT memory is 3802M for EA.exe with 159M Resident ... so my system with 2G Ram must be swapping a lot.  
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Can others report the memory usage of EA.exe under Wine or Crossover.
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Using Code Weaver Crossover Standard version 7.1.0
Ubuntu 8.10
EA 7.5(844) Professional version
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Edward

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Linux: Wine or Code Weaver

« on: May 24, 2009, 08:13:44 pm »

I have installed Code Weaver and it does work ... sort of.
I cannot display any of the CHM files (compressed html files) that contain the help pages.  For that matter these files cannot be displayed in either Gnochm or xChm.

AND my biggest problem is that EA is so slooooooow to the point of being unusable.  After an hour of usage with approx 8 classes in a diagram you need to wait forever (well a second or so) for any mouse action to be acted upon in the diagram.

EG select a class symbol and drag to new position.  Then wait and wait for the dragged symbol to be re-displayed.

I can only conclude that EA over Code Weaver is not a production viable system.  

It is OK to view a model, and make a change or two, but you could not work effectively all day.

I would love to wrong on this .... I really like EA ... but also Linux is my desktop environment.  

Now if it was a configuration problem on my part ... it would be really neat if a virtual appliance could be created that contained all the tweaks necessary to make it run effectively.
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Edward

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Bugs and Issues / Linux: Wine or Code Weaver

« on: May 22, 2009, 11:12:40 am »

Hi,

I am seeking experience reports on using Wine or Code Weaver to run EA7.5 under Ubuntu 8.10.  

I had successfully installed the linux trial (EA7.1) with Wine but now that I have bought EA7.5 it freezes whenever I try to open a diagram.

So should I go to Code Weaver rather than Wine.
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Thanks

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Data Model : Show Attributes Only Error?

« on: May 25, 2009, 12:05:20 pm »

Yes I have submitted just now.
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Edward

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Bugs and Issues / Data Model : Show Attributes Only Error?

« on: May 22, 2009, 04:09:21 pm »

HI

Create a Data Model and a  table and some attributes.
Using Diagram | Properties | Features tab.
Show Attribute Detail set Name Only.

This leave the attributes showing the name plus the field length in brackets.

Eg
person_name: VARCHAR2(255) is displayed as
person_name(255)

I expect to see just
person_name

Should this be reported as system error?  
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Edward